<p>I don’t understand your beef. I don’t think that by saying these kids are earning these scholarships by academic achievement that that is the same as saying that these kids feel “entitled”. I’m sure they still think of these scholarships as generous gifts/rewards…not “entitlements” which has a greedy “me me” connotation.</p>
<p>How is this any different from endowing a chair? In that case, you’d be donating money so that the university can pay a highly desirable prof more money than they’d normally be able to pay him/her. Without the money, they wouldn’t be able to get/keep that prof. That doesn’t mean that the prof has an “entitlement” attitude. He’s earned that endowed chair.</p>